Deepak Mahaan

is a documentary filmmaker, author, columnist, sports commentator & mentor.

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Meena Kumari: Performer Beyond Comparison

Films are emotions unraveled in images. Greater the bond between the images and the emotions of a story, greater the chance of a film impacting the audiences’ collective consciousness for a lifetime. Though multiple factors...

Tiger Pataudi: Intelligent, dashing and fearless cricketer, both on and off the field

In December 1961, six months after the car accident in which he lost most of the eyesight of one eye, Mansoor Ali Khan Pataudi smashed a brilliant century against England at Madras (now Chennai). Asked...

Songs for Mahatma’s Ears

As a devoted follower of Mahatma Gandhi’s principles of truth and non-violence, I often wonder what the Mahatma would have opined about our Hindi film songs if he had been alive today? While he would...

King Charles III of Great Britain: Walking along with the would be King

Bhanwata–Kolyala is not easy to find on the map, not even for a resident of Rajasthan. So deep is it embedded within Sariska forest, that not many locals are even aware of its existence. But...

Remembering Rafi: Greatest Ever Playback Singer

What is it that makes the Mohammed Rafi magic endure amongst listeners cutting across barriers of age, caste, creed, colour, gender and national boundaries even after forty-two years? Ascribing any one reason would be a...

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76 percent applicants in Jharkhand did not get any installment of PMMVY since inception

Ranchi: Jaya, a resident of Raidih, Gumla had applied in 2017 for Pradhan Mantri Matru Vandan Yojna (PMMVY). She had provided all the documents...

Hemant Soren government wins battle of perception, CM delivers most aggressive speech

Ranchi/Kolkata: In the battle of perception, Hemant Soren-led United Progressive Alliance defeated the opposition or more precisely Bharatiya Janata Party in Jharkhand on Monday. A...

Black marketers arrested selling India-Bangladesh first day-night test match tickets

Kolkata: On the eve of historic first-ever Day-Night Test cricket to be played in India at the iconic Eden Gardens, Kolkatans seems to have...

भारतीय राजनीति के विपक्ष की एकता का केंद्र होगा हेमंत सोरेन का शपथ ग्रहण समारोह

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From Dandi, India begins another march, this time against Modi’s megalomania and dandaraj, say farmer leaders in Kolkata

Kolkata: On the 91st anniversary of Gandhiji's historic March from Sabarmati to Dandi in coastal Gujarat for Salt Satyagraha to defy the arbitrary and...